Two Paths for Millennial Politics
The important issue today isn’t what the world has done to millennials. It’s what millennials are going to do next—and where they’ll look for leadership.
Winter 2025
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No More Lifeboats
While acknowledging the ongoing emotional and institutional power of the nation as a community of shared fate, we are also clear-eyed about its limitations given the scale of today’s challenges.
Jim Crow Must Go in Brooklyn
In July 1963, “Jim Crow Must Go In Brooklyn!” became the rallying cry of scores of men, women, and children resisting segregation.
Unknown Unknowns
A lifetime of studying politics doesn’t guarantee that you’ll understand what’s happening now, and having been right once before isn’t much help either.
Beyond the Backlash
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
The End of the World as We Know It?
If the humanities can’t produce thinkers who can get us out of this mess, they are still producing some of the best commentators on where it has come from and where it threatens to take us.
Immigrants Didn’t Kill Your Union
Immigration didn’t cause the economic restructuring that began in the 1970s, or the inequality and labor degradation that came with it.
Nicos Poulantzas: Philosopher of Democratic Socialism
Poulantzas tried to envision how the left could simultaneously champion rank-and-file democracy at a distance from the state and push for radical transformation from within it.
France’s Anti-Liberal Left
In the ideas of Jean-Claude Michéa, we can see what a left populism fully divorced from liberalism might look like.
After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back
A Wisconsin law stripped their union of its rights. So the teachers got to work.
What Amos Oz Couldn’t See
The late writer’s displays of moral courage will serve as a kind of record for future historians, proof of the efforts of Israelis who did not stand idly by as their country’s skies darkened—as well as proof of their shortcomings.
No Power without Organizing
Workers must build durable collective identities on their own behalf, and unions must institutionalize that social solidarity.
Airport Workers Strike Back: An Interview with Sara Nelson
“This is about reviving a labor movement that really fights for the working class.”
A Seat at the Table: Sectoral Bargaining for the Common Good
We must once again imagine a legal regime that encourages workers’ collective activity and gives their organizations real power in the governing process.
How to Win
Without unions to institutionalize them, waves of activism dissipate. As the nation and the labor movement shift to the left, progressives need to push forward policies and politics that strengthen those working-class organizations.
